The Effects Of Technology On Family Communication

According to guardchild.com, 17% of teens surveyed stated that they received an email or an online message with photos or words that made them feel uncomfortable, and only 7% of parents were aware of this. In an article titled “The Undercover Parent” by Harlan Coben, it explains about the idea about parents using spyware on their children. Everything a child types can already be seen by the world, even pedophiles or online bullies. Coben supports the idea; however, he feels that showing the article to a child is better because it can lead to a to a conversation about concerns the parents may have. Parents should monitor their children’s online behavior because they want to keep their children safe from cyber bullies and pedophiles.

When it comes to the discussion as to whether or not technological advancements have helped family communication, consider how communication between family members differ now compared to the past. Historically until maybe the last twenty years or so the only realistic way for a parent to keep in contact with their child in a situation such as when the parent was at work or when the child went to some place was through the then current telephone. While this obviously came in handy for many different situations, it ultimately had serval drawbacks that limited the communication of families. For example, telephones at the time were exclusively stationary which meant it wasn't like you could just automatically call someone. Rather you would have

Technology is a double edged weapon, but the negative edge is sharper and cuts the reality into pieces, as the children are building and living their behavior and thoughts with whatever they are exposed to using different kinds of technology. One serious impact is the safety and internet privacy of the children. Pamela DeLoatch in her article “The Four Negative Sides of Technology” added that children may unwittingly share information that may endanger their lives. According to her “82% of online sex crimes against children are made using the social networking sites.” According to their excessive use of technology their lives details are open to everybody which sometimes led to undesired acts. It doesn’t have to be sexual abuse but also it may fracture the children’s self-esteem. Self-esteem shapes the way children think of themselves, if a child is popular in his network his self-esteem will be high, and vies versa. Jim Taylor in his article “how technology is changing the way children think and focus” stated similar opinion when he argued that new technologies are shaping the way our children think, adding that researches came with a conclusion that technology can be both harmful and beneficial to ways in which children think. He also said that it is clear that the advancing technology controls how our brains

​Technological advancement is one factor that affects parent-child relationship. According to research, 46% of smartphone owners consider their smartphones as a necessity for daily living (Smith). Technology has made it possible to incorporate a lot of things in just one phone – you can use it as an alarm clock, a camera, a dictionary, and many more – making it a constant feature in day to day activities. Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and other social networking sites have made communication easier, that’s a good thing. However, most college students spend their time interacting with their friends online and that causes them to spend less time bonding with their parents. Likewise, the parents distance themselves from their children when they use technology as a means to bring more work at home. Even if technology

Facebook, Snapchat, Kik, Twitter, Instagram, and gaming sites are all good until something bad happens. Author Harlan Coben writer of “The Undercover Parent”, believes parents should monitor their children's software. Even though children find software useful, parents should monitor their kids software because children can be cyber bullied. Children can also be in danger of pedophiles .

Family seems to be a big topic in manys books but even bigger on the web and through cyberspace. Perry Patetic in his excerpt argues that our highly mobile and growing society is creating a lack of relationship with family and friends. The author supports his argument by first explaining how easy it is to just move away. He continues by explaining how far we do travel when we do move away and by what mode of transportation. The authors purpose is to persuade the audience to not travel far from family and stay relatively close so that relationships can be kept, preserved, and maintained. The author establishes a sincere tone for families. The authors argument is invalid because we are in the age of online technology and services that allow us to see family from afar and cherish the few moments that we get in person.

In the digital diet of American teens by Rawhide it states that 72% of parents are a worried that their child will reveal inappropriate information to strangers online this fact shows how the internet can be really dangerous. Teens and kids can be bullied or catfished online without the parents or guardian ever knowing. Students are catfished when someone on line impersonators and says that they are someone completely different from who they really are. The bad things that you can do on the internet and using media is endless. I think just limiting or having a parent monitor your media could help out a lot. Even if you do have a parent monitor you moves on the internet it might help out some but the only sure fire way to make sure that nothing like that will happen is just to not use it at

Society now and more than ever captures most of their life’s greatest and most unforgettable moments on camera. Moreover, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram gives people the ability to share those memories with distance family and friends. No longer does distance hinder individuals ability to share special moments like- school plays, funny home video’s and birthdays. However, Amy Web argues that many citizens fail to think about the consequences of uploading family and sole photos online. In contrast she belives social media is a great way to stay in thouch with aquantes. Amy Web, author of “We Post, Nothing About Our Daughter Online”, unveiled the detrimental impacts social media possess in a child's future. Furthermore,

Society now and more than ever captures most of their life’s greatest and most unforgettable moments on camera. While the biggest perk of all is the ability to share these moments with distance love one’s and friends. Social media sites and apps like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram makes photo and message sharing feasible. Anyone can upload all their kids memorable moments to social media profiles. As a result distance will never present a dilemma for families and friends, now a school play, funny home video, or birthday never have to be missed. Amy Web, author of “We Post, Nothing About Our Daughter Online”, unveiled the detrimental impacts social media possess in a child's future. Furthermore,

I agree with part of this, parents should treat the internet more like the real world, however they should tone it up a little with the internet but tone it down a little in the real world. Kids need to learn how to be independent, watching over them like this does not teach independence, in fact it completely destroys it.

Unfortunately, children are also exposed to a world where their personal information can be available to people around the world, and they might be threatened or intimidated by others. Youngwood is aware of the fact that parents cannot isolate their children from the digital world. Therefore, he recommends parents to stay updated with latest technologies to supervise their

Etzioni writes on how a relationship between parent and child is becoming nothing more than a virtual relationship. Time usually spent together at home over a homemade dinner is now time spent on the cell phone. I feel that the technology world

Technology has changed the relationships of families. Distracted by their laptops, TV’s, smartphones, and video games, families can’t have a friendly

Although we now have such luxuries it is every parents responsibility to make sure their children's reliance on such things are limited to convenience not survival. Timothy L. Husley said, "We have come to accept virtual as real, on-line as social, and facebook as face to face."

Social media plays a complex role in children’s differentiation from parents. On the one hand, social media make it very easy for adolescents to stay in minute-by-minute touch with their peers. Yet, those same social media make it easy for adolescents to stay in touch with parents (Wood, 1999, p. 313).